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cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 08:34 AM
So as I was re-organizing one of my humidors last night, I realized that I have a whole section of my humidor devoted to cigars that are, for the most part, unsmokable. These are cigars that somehow got torn or crushed and I throw them in my humidor thinking, well maybe if I cut off the top 3 inches of this I will be able to smoke what's left, or if I position my hand so that my finger is on top of this hole, maybe I will be able to get this one to draw. Despite the fact that I have plenty of delicious, in-tact sticks in my humidor, I just can't make myself throw the damaged ones away.
Does anyone else have this hording problem?
Branzig
03-06-2015, 08:38 AM
I don't know if you have hoarding a problem.
Sounds like you have more of a cigar destruction problem :p
Emperor Zurg
03-06-2015, 08:39 AM
Unlike you, it would seem, I'm careful with my cigars, so no. http://freeemoticonsandsmileys.com/animated%20emoticons/Funny%20Animated%20Emoticons/stick%20with%20poke.gif
That, and if I notice a ragged one, it's the first one I smoke.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 08:45 AM
Hey Hey Hey! Don't go pointing fingers at me. I am gentle as a mamma alligator with my sticks. I get these when they show up damaged to our warehouse and instead of throwing them away I RESCUE them. I am a cigar saint I tell you!
Old Smokey
03-06-2015, 08:46 AM
Unlike you, it would seem, I'm careful with my cigars, so no. http://freeemoticonsandsmileys.com/animated%20emoticons/Funny%20Animated%20Emoticons/stick%20with%20poke.gif
That, and if I notice a ragged one, it's the first one I smoke.
I do the same thing, if I notice one that has some damage, I smoke it. Keeping the riffraff from cheapening the eye appeal of the others.
Branzig
03-06-2015, 08:47 AM
Hey Hey Hey! Don't go pointing fingers at me. I am gentle as a mamma alligator with my sticks. I get these when they show up damaged to our warehouse and instead of throwing them away I RESCUE them. I am a cigar saint I tell you!
If you have that much of a damage surplus, sounds like it is time to start making some cigar leaf pipe tobacco :pipe:
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 08:52 AM
If you have that much of a damage surplus, sounds like it is time to start making some cigar leaf pipe tobacco :pipe:
Man, you and Dave are all about this pipe stuff. He wants to start carrying pipes and pipe accoutrements and pipe tobacco. That is all I hear about in marketing meetings!
The only cigars I hoard or collect is my LP collection. For the most part I have one of everything that I plan on keeping as a set. Extras get happily smoked. I never set out with that goal it just sort of happened and when I realized it I didn't want to smoke anything that would incomplete my set. Nothing else gets hoarded or collected just acclimated and smoked.
Branzig
03-06-2015, 08:59 AM
Man, you and Dave are all about this pipe stuff. He wants to start carrying pipes and pipe accoutrements and pipe tobacco. That is all I hear about in marketing meetings!
Makes total sense to me! With all your beat to shiz cigars, you can make your own house blend already to boot!
Resistance is futile :D
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 09:04 AM
Makes total sense to me! With all your beat to shiz cigars, you can make your own house blend already to boot!
Resistance is futile :D
But I know nothing about pipes! In fact, we got samples of pipes from a vendor last week and I couldn't tell if they were damaged or if they were supposed to look like someone chewed on the stem...
Emperor Zurg
03-06-2015, 09:05 AM
Hey Hey Hey! Don't go pointing fingers at me. I am gentle as a mamma alligator with my sticks. I get these when they show up damaged to our warehouse and instead of throwing them away I RESCUE them. I am a cigar saint I tell you!
Wait a minute... are saying that you get...
FREE CIGARS?!?!?
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Branzig
03-06-2015, 09:07 AM
But I know nothing about pipes! In fact, we got samples of pipes from a vendor last week and I couldn't tell if they were damaged or if they were supposed to look like someone chewed on the stem...
Haha! I'm guessing if the stems look chewed they're estate pipes. Need to restore them up and sell them along side your new house blend.
Or sell them as is along with your broken sticks. Ding and dent center!
Marc L
03-06-2015, 09:13 AM
Have the mind please to consider, tobaccos essential need to carry our thoughts though its sacrifice. If having not the means for repairs in self, perhaps consignments. At least, please, .. the fire pit and a thought. Never throw away.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 09:14 AM
Wait a minute... are saying that you get...
FREE CIGARS?!?!?
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Hahaha yes I do on occasion. Considering any new line we bring on in-house has to get my thumbs up, I smoke a lot of "free" cigars. In fact, when we were first trying to launch our house brand military cigars (At Ease) I went through probably 100 different blends to find one I liked enough to put our name on them.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 09:17 AM
Haha! I'm guessing if the stems look chewed they're estate pipes. Need to restore them up and sell them along side your new house blend.
Or sell them as is along with your broken sticks. Ding and dent center!
Nope, turns out the shipping box rubbed against the stems and scuffed them all up
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 09:18 AM
Have the mind please to consider, tobaccos essential need to carry our thoughts though its sacrifice. If having not the means for repairs in self, perhaps consignments. At least, please, .. the fire pit and a thought. Never throw away.
Fire pit OOOOOOOR cutter testing experiments!
AlanS
03-06-2015, 09:19 AM
Hahaha yes I do on occasion. Considering any new line we bring on in-house has to get my thumbs up, I smoke a lot of "free" cigars. In fact, when we were first trying to launch our house brand military cigars (At Ease) I went through probably 100 different blends to find one I liked enough to put our name on them.
It's a tough job but someone has to do it!
ChiefIlliniwek
03-06-2015, 09:21 AM
The only cigars I hoard or collect is my LP collection. For the most part I have one of everything that I plan on keeping as a set. Extras get happily smoked. I never set out with that goal it just sort of happened and when I realized it I didn't want to smoke anything that would incomplete my set. Nothing else gets hoarded or collected just acclimated and smoked.
Just curious - do you rotate your sticks out of your set if you acquire a second one? So if you have a vitola that is in it's prime (say two years old), and you acquire a second one - which one do you smoke?
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 09:23 AM
It's a tough job but someone has to do it!
Normally, I don't complain about smoking free cigars, HOWEVER, some of those unbanded sticks were absolutely painful. You'd be surprised how terrible unbanded sticks can be, the quality control of SOME of these just go out the window since the company that makes them aren't putting their names on them
Marc L
03-06-2015, 09:24 AM
Fire pit OOOOOOOR cutter testing experiments!
How about cutter testing experiments then, the fire pit and, a thought?
AlanS
03-06-2015, 09:26 AM
Kayla I think I know where to send the DogRockets!
Just curious - do you rotate your sticks out of your set if you acquire a second one? So if you have a vitola that is in it's prime (say two years old), and you acquire a second one - which one do you smoke?
I really like the way LPs smoke in their first year so I smoke them young. The ones Ive saved Ive had for a while at this point. Im sure they're still good but mellowed more than I like. The exception being FFPs and L40s, those seem to age better than the others IMO.
R1100RS
03-06-2015, 09:29 AM
Take a deep breath....and a glass of rum (zaya's a good one) gather all those poor rescued souls up in a box and ship them to Branzig. :) Problem solved and he can start a cigar leaf pipe tobacco project.
Then sit down, have another glass of rum...maybe switch to Bourbon (Booker's now) and light up one of your finest as a tribute.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 09:30 AM
Take a deep breath....and a glass of rum (zaya's a good one) gather all those poor rescued souls up in a box and ship them to Branzig. :) Problem solved and he can start a cigar leaf pipe tobacco project.
Then sit down, have another glass of rum...maybe switch to Bourbon (Booker's now) and light up one of your finest as a tribute.
Ooo I like that idea!
Emperor Zurg
03-06-2015, 09:43 AM
Normally, I don't complain about smoking free cigars, HOWEVER, some of those unbanded sticks were absolutely painful. You'd be surprised how terrible unbanded sticks can be, the quality control of SOME of these just go out the window since the company that makes them aren't putting their names on them
Be careful with those dog rockets. Next thing you know some pompous, self important douche bag with a cigar review YouTube channel will be cutting them apart and accusing you of selling 'fake' cigars.
Just sayin'
projectsunfire
03-06-2015, 09:47 AM
I tend to hoard my high-end sticks. I just can't get myself to smoke a $20-30 cigar on an average Tuesday after work. So I save them for a "special occasion" which seemingly never comes so I have a lot of premium stuff that I never smoke.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 09:48 AM
Be careful with those dog rockets. Next thing you know some pompous, self important douche bag with a cigar review YouTube channel will be cutting them apart and accusing you of selling 'fake' cigars.
Just sayin'
Hahaha. Sadly enough, when I look at our sales records, the dog rockets are the MOST POPULAR cigars. I try to make awesome cigar samplers with high end sticks... nobody buys them. I put together 10 mixed filler crap sticks that I can't stand, we sell out.
Nature
03-06-2015, 09:51 AM
Hey Hey Hey! Don't go pointing fingers at me. I am gentle as a mamma alligator with my sticks. I get these when they show up damaged to our warehouse and instead of throwing them away I RESCUE them. I am a cigar saint I tell you!
Oh, I see. Like the cat lady of cigars! Taking in all the strays.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 09:53 AM
Oh, I see. Like the cat lady of cigars! Taking in all the strays.
I prefer dog lady, but okay
Emperor Zurg
03-06-2015, 09:57 AM
Hahaha. Sadly enough, when I look at our sales records, the dog rockets are the MOST POPULAR cigars. I try to make awesome cigar samplers with high end sticks... nobody buys them. I put together 10 mixed filler crap sticks that I can't stand, we sell out.
I can see that happening. Same way people buy cheap, disposable crap from China over quality American made products. Price is all that matters.
WNYTONY
03-06-2015, 09:58 AM
Well Kayla you answered that question for me.
My brother is presently incarcerated for some problems with hitting the bottle too hard after a nasty divorce and I send him some cigars every now and then.
They don't have alot of time to smoke so he tells me he breaks them up and the re-rolls them, basically like joints, so they can have a quick smoke.
He's never smoked cigarettes or cigars but I guess with time on your hands... and he doesn't like the rolling cig tobacco and so I've sent him stogies and he's also tried some pipe tobacco but cigars seem to be the best for these re-rolls (as he calls them).
So one day I tell him I sent him some smokes and he says he doesn't want to take my good cigars - "what do those companies do with the broken cigars they get in" ?
Now I have the answer - they reside in Kayla's humidor !
So to answer your original question - I'd send them to my bro. I haven't had many broken yet, but I have enough other sticks I've tried and not loved so I always have stuff to send to him.
Why'd you have to mention those At Ease you sneaky devil - you know that we are all going to go check those out now.........
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 10:10 AM
Why'd you have to mention those At Ease you sneaky devil - you know that we are all going to go check those out now.........
Well you can't they are in the process of being re-blended (the place we bought them from went under so the blend disappeared). Sorry!
But that is a great idea for what to do with my broken sticks!
WNYTONY
03-06-2015, 10:20 AM
Well you can't they are in the process of being re-blended (the place we bought them from went under so the blend disappeared). Sorry!
But that is a great idea for what to do with my broken sticks!
Whew - dodged that bullet !
I'm sure you'll keep us informed when they are ready for us to try
Yes - the new Cheap Humidors Prison Pack LOL.
I've never heard of anyone else doing that but then again he has some really interesting stories. Those guys are pretty creative.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 10:23 AM
Whew - dodged that bullet !
I'm sure you'll keep us informed when they are ready for us to try
Yes - the new Cheap Humidors Prison Pack LOL.
I've never heard of anyone else doing that but then again he has some really interesting stories. Those guys are pretty creative.
I bet they are, with that much time on their hands, what else are they going to do?
BMack
03-06-2015, 11:31 AM
Have you tried some cigar glue to pull back some of them from the grave? I recently bought some and it works really well. I'm sure you could even glue patch leafs over tears/cracks.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 11:34 AM
Have you tried some cigar glue to pull back some of them from the grave? I recently bought some and it works really well. I'm sure you could even glue patch leafs over tears/cracks.
I use fruit pectin for the ones that look fixable.
Kookla
03-06-2015, 11:38 AM
My dog killed one of mine Dirty Rats ( i only had 2 )... i wanted to cry... i think i may have to hold on to it just in case. So i maybe on my way to hoarding :)
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 11:40 AM
My dog killed one of mine Dirty Rats ( i only had 2 )... i wanted to cry... i think i may have to hold on to it just in case. So i maybe on my way to hoarding :)
Oh man! That dog's cuteness factor better outweigh its destruction factor!
Rocket Scientologist
03-06-2015, 11:46 AM
I am gentle as a mamma alligator with my sticks.
I'm no expert, but how gentle can momma alligators be? I feel like there are other mommas in the animal kingdom that might provide a better analogy.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 11:52 AM
I'm no expert, but how gentle can momma alligators be? I feel like there are other mommas in the animal kingdom that might provide a better analogy.
Well, I am an "expert" (not really)on the topic (my life long dream was to be a herpetologist and therefor I spend a lot of time reading journal articles on alligators) and mamma alligators are exceptionally gentle with their babies. In fact, alligators spend the first 2 years of their lives under their mom's protection. When they hatch, she comes and digs them out of their nest and gently carries them to the water with a level of grace and dexterity that is shocking given their immense size and power.
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQtz_xnlsr_yJicBY8pAl2Ai9NJbSi3z J-iP1orPY0q0FQTZSfE
Billb1960
03-06-2015, 11:55 AM
I'm no expert, but how gentle can momma alligators be? I feel like there are other mommas in the animal kingdom that might provide a better analogy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sUdcuQ507U
Kookla
03-06-2015, 11:56 AM
Oh man! That dog's cuteness factor better outweigh its destruction factor!
The jury is still out on that! She is pretty cute... but.......... i do love my cigars
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 11:59 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sUdcuQ507U
Oh is that not the most precious thing you've ever seen?!
Browns7213
03-06-2015, 12:17 PM
Be careful with those dog rockets. Next thing you know some pompous, self important douche bag with a cigar review YouTube channel will be cutting them apart and accusing you of selling 'fake' cigars.
Just sayin'
Hmmmmmm. Come to think of it, I've never seen Zurg and Bryan Glynn in the same room at the same time. I'm not sayin they're the same person butttttttttttt.................................... ...............
TreySC
03-06-2015, 12:19 PM
Well, I am an "expert" (not really)on the topic (my life long dream was to be a herpetologist and therefor I spend a lot of time reading journal articles on alligators) and mamma alligators are exceptionally gentle with their babies. In fact, alligators spend the first 2 years of their lives under their mom's protection. When they hatch, she comes and digs them out of their nest and gently carries them to the water with a level of grace and dexterity that is shocking given their immense size and power.
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQtz_xnlsr_yJicBY8pAl2Ai9NJbSi3z J-iP1orPY0q0FQTZSfE
I did lake management for a while when I lived in Sarasota. Had plenty of run ins with gators but never saw in babies with their mammas. Which is probably a good thing based on how protective they are.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 12:59 PM
I did lake management for a while when I lived in Sarasota. Had plenty of run ins with gators but never saw in babies with their mammas. Which is probably a good thing based on how protective they are.
Wow! What a fun job!
I run into quite a few babies when I kayak, I even found a newly hatched nest, cutest thing ever!
herman
03-06-2015, 01:10 PM
My dog killed one of mine Dirty Rats ( i only had 2 )... i wanted to cry... i think i may have to hold on to it just in case. So i maybe on my way to hoarding
What's going on with that? I have a small dog living with me that took a chunk out of one of my LPs. I laid a few sticks out to let her choose what I would smoke and she ran straight for the LP and didn't even think about it, just sank her teeth in. Of course this is also the same dog that stole a $100 bill and tried to eat that too.
TreySC
03-06-2015, 01:14 PM
Wow! What a fun job!
I run into quite a few babies when I kayak, I even found a newly hatched nest, cutest thing ever!
It was fun for the most part. The gators usually got out of the way, but still a little scary when you don't see them right away.
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 01:59 PM
What's going on with that? I have a small dog living with me that took a chunk out of one of my LPs. I laid a few sticks out to let her choose what I would smoke and she ran straight for the LP and didn't even think about it, just sank her teeth in. Of course this is also the same dog that stole a $100 bill and tried to eat that too.
My dogs are all afraid of a lit cigar. Not sure why... but Maxine inevitably walks up to me and puts her head on my leg when I am outside in my smoking chair but then as soon as I take a puff she skitters away. But by the sound of it, this may be a good thing
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 02:02 PM
It was fun for the most part. The gators usually got out of the way, but still a little scary when you don't see them right away.
"Usually" is the key word. A couple of months ago I was kayaking in the Hillsborough river and had to lay back in my kayak to get under a log. My head was back so I couldn't see where I was going, all of a sudden I feel myself bump into, what I assumed was another log, and then the front of my kayak dip down quite a bit. I looked up to find a +/- 8 foot gator scrambling over the top of my kayak, apparently I hit the poor thing as he was sunning himself. I felt so bad!
TreySC
03-06-2015, 02:12 PM
"Usually" is the key word. A couple of months ago I was kayaking in the Hillsborough river and had to lay back in my kayak to get under a log. My head was back so I couldn't see where I was going, all of a sudden I feel myself bump into, what I assumed was another log, and then the front of my kayak dip down quite a bit. I looked up to find a +/- 8 foot gator scrambling over the top of my kayak, apparently I hit the poor thing as he was sunning himself. I felt so bad!
That's pants changer right there LOL. At least out in the rivers like that you shouldn't run into to many that have been fed and get aggressive.
Rocket Scientologist
03-06-2015, 02:16 PM
Well, I am an "expert" (not really)on the topic (my life long dream was to be a herpetologist and therefor I spend a lot of time reading journal articles on alligators) and mamma alligators are exceptionally gentle with their babies. In fact, alligators spend the first 2 years of their lives under their mom's protection. When they hatch, she comes and digs them out of their nest and gently carries them to the water with a level of grace and dexterity that is shocking given their immense size and power.
I stand corrected. The more you know...*music chimes*
cheaphumidors
03-06-2015, 02:17 PM
That's pants changer right there LOL. At least out in the rivers like that you shouldn't run into to many that have been fed and get aggressive.
Oddly enough, fear was not one of the emotions I felt. For some reason I don't have a natural fear response to alligators (or really any of the "scary" animals). But try to get me to hold a crab, just try! I start screaming like a little girl.
Branzig
03-06-2015, 03:31 PM
Take a deep breath....and a glass of rum (zaya's a good one) gather all those poor rescued souls up in a box and ship them to Branzig. :) Problem solved and he can start a cigar leaf pipe tobacco project.
Then sit down, have another glass of rum...maybe switch to Bourbon (Booker's now) and light up one of your finest as a tribute.
Ooo I like that idea!
Yeah, I could work with this. As long as I can have some rum too!
Feel free to throw in any of those junked pipes too lol. ;)